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To: DoctorMichael
Gravity, in this model, is the curvature of the sheet (the space/time continuum).

Yes. And if you pull the sheet down a little farther in that spot, the curvature won't readjust itself instantaneously across the whole sheet... instead, the increased curvature propagates as a wave outward from the place you pull on, at some measurable rate.

39 posted on 01/07/2003 7:43:58 PM PST by Oberon
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To: Oberon
.........the increased curvature propagates as a wave outward from the place you pull on, at some measurable rate..........

.......like making a wave in the the sheets when you make your bed by injecting a wave of air underneath them. This I knew, but was somehow having a hard time incorporating this into the model.

However, like photons being responsible for the transference of the electromagnetic force, where then are the Gravitons, the particles responsible for this force?

44 posted on 01/07/2003 7:55:08 PM PST by DoctorMichael (My brain still hurts.)
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